Importing users to Buddypress with custom fields

Here’s the setup: The client uses a proprietary custom-coded PHP CMS and is wanting to move to WordPress with BuddyPress. The old, custom CMS has a roster functionality, which I’m using BuddyPress custom fields to replace. The custom fields are basic contact info (Phone, Fax) and company info (Text field). What is the best way … Read more

Importing Multiple DB to one MU database

I have three databases associated with three different WP sites. I set up one MU site, with one database. How should I import each of the three databases? 1 Answer 1 Best thing to do is read the docs: http://codex.wordpress.org/Tools_Export_Screen and http://codex.wordpress.org/Importing_Content#WordPress and work with WXR files rather than trying to export directly from the … Read more

Update content of multiple pages/posts at once?

Is this possible? using shortcodes? Custom post type? Custom Fields? CSV upload? Unique content per page. Do not need to create new pages, Just update body of them. Seems like a tough one? Also can this be scheduled. Specifically there are a dozen Horoscope pages, with a paragraph of text. I’d like to update each … Read more

Importing large data from blogger

My backup data from blogger is 56.3MB large. I tried importing using the WordPress Blogger plugin. Because the data is too large, I had to configure my php.ini to increase the value of three variables: post_max_size=100M, upload_max_file_size=100M and memory_limit=1280M I also changed the permission to my wp-content folder recursively to 777. i.e. chmod 777 -R … Read more